Drop Review
Bonkers thriller Drop from Blumhouse and Universal Pictures is a great time.
Meghann Fahy in Drop. Courtesy of Blumhouse / Universal Pictures / Platinum Dunes.
Christopher Landon, director of Happy Death Day and Freaky, brings us a deliriously fun thriller from genre factory Blumhouse. Drop embraces its high-concept premise and creatively delivers taut suspense even as it goes over the top.
Violet (Meghann Fahy) is a widow who decides to go out on her first date in a very long time with Henry (Brandon Sklenar), a charming photographer she met on an online dating service. Everything seems perfect, until she begins to receive anonymous drops on her phone that threaten her and her young child if she doesn’t do exactly what they say, including murdering her date. The stakes are high, and once the movie gets going, it doesn’t let up as Landon takes the premise and runs with it. Despite a couple of predictable moments, the film is always fun.
Meghann Fahy and Brandon Sklenar in Drop. Courtesy of Blumhouse / Universal Pictures / Platinum Dunes.
Looking at phone or computer screens in movies is boring, and Landon finds creative and visually attractive ways to avoid having to look at Violet’s phone to see her messages. It becomes even more natural once the movie establishes that the villain can hear Violet, so she doesn’t need to send phone messages. Landon also uses his camera and lighting to bring us into Violet’s subjective headspace and her claustrophobic isolation, dipping into expressionistic representation very effectively. Drop is a great-looking movie that visually distinguishes itself from generic budget thriller territory as it brings its big, dumb fun.
The movie is well-paced at a breezy 95 minutes. I would expect it to come to streaming quickly, but I think it’s great to see on the big screen if you can. It’s great at what it does and is another win for genre cinema.
Drop opened on April 11, 2025, and is in theaters now.
